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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
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Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
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When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
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What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
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The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.
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The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
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The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.
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